LONDON: A child born today faces multiple and life-long health harms from climate change: growing up in a warmer world with risks of food shortages, infectious diseases, floods and extreme heat, a major global study has found.
He warned that health damage in early childhood is"persistent and pervasive", and carries lifelong consequences. Yet introducing policies to limit emissions and cap global warming would see a different outcome, the research teams said.In that scenario, a child born today, would see an end to coal use in Britain, for example, by their 6th birthday, and the world reaching net-zero emissions by the time they were 31.The Lancet study is a collaboration by 120 experts from 35 institutions including the World Health Organization, the World Bank, University College London and China's Tsinghua University.
Among the most immediate and long-lasting health threats from climate change is air pollution, the researchers said.
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